[Sussex] Installing Gentoo - more questions

[David Chapman]

On Thursday 18 December 2003 21:13, John D. wrote:
> I sort of understand what Geoff has said, but now when I'm either typing
> into an app or scrolling with the mouse, I'm getting a "vertical column of
> horizontal lines that flicker on the screen".
>

I think this is the refresh rate of your monitor that needs to be changed.
Here's mine.


Section "Monitor"

    Identifier  "201b"

# HorizSync is in kHz unless units are specified.
# HorizSync may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a
# comma separated list of ranges of values.
# NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY.  REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S
# USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS.

    HorizSync   30-94

#    HorizSync	30-64         # multisync
#    HorizSync	31.5, 35.2    # multiple fixed sync frequencies
#    HorizSync	15-25, 30-50  # multiple ranges of sync frequencies

# VertRefresh is in Hz unless units are specified.
# VertRefresh may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a
# comma separated list of ranges of values.
# NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY.  REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S
# USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS.

    VertRefresh 50-160

EndSection

DO NOT use this.
Have a look at your Mandrake XF86Config to get the correct HorizSync & 
VertRefresh rates